]]>Comment on Happiness by Ready, Set, RECAP! (Part 1) « Destiny Unboundhttps://ctyanqui.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/happiness/#comment-18
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:09:02 +0000http://ctyanqui.wordpress.com/?p=206#comment-18[…] brother, aka Jonathan, aka “A CT Yanqui in Argentina” spent the last week of his study abroad program visiting me in here in Chile. It gave both […]
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Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:16:10 +0000http://ctyanqui.wordpress.com/?p=210#comment-17See you in Santiago che, cachai?
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Fri, 13 May 2011 13:06:15 +0000http://ctyanqui.wordpress.com/?p=153#comment-16I’ve lived in various burbs my whole life (except for a short 3-year stint in downtown Hartford), but have a sort of proud subliminal life-long identity as being “from New York.”

Cities can be so exciting…. lots of art, and outdoor spaces, and history, and people doing interesting things. Unlike in the burbs, you can be part of what other people are doing simply by virtue of the fact that you can see them, be in the same space, hear the same sounds. You don’t have to be invited in in quite the same way as when you live in the suburbs. Common space is just that–in common.

And yet, cities can press in and feel stifling to me. Where are the mountains? the ocean? the silence in which I can hear a bird song, or the sound of the wind? Where is the privacy where (see above) no one uninvited shares my space? I love the tranquility of my own backyard, the restfulness where no one “needs” anything from me, a truly private space where I can sit alone in the sun and be recharged…

And so, I can visit the one and live and be restored quietly in the other. Best of both worlds.

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Fri, 13 May 2011 05:09:41 +0000http://ctyanqui.wordpress.com/?p=153#comment-15and once you acknowledge that chicago is the best city ever, you’ll be set for life.

but yes, i know what you mean about the lonliness. riding the train today was one of those times where it would have been nice if people actually talked to each other, rather than being alone together.

on the other hand, cities are the best thing ever. and invented by cain. as i discovered recently. as in cain and able. yup. cities were invented by cain.